Winner takes all in open source: The MySQL example, Feb 11, 2008

Dave Rosenberg once wrote that the winner in a given open-source category (ERP, CRM, etc.) takes all. There's no room for second place. The first mover to get critical mass tends to horde the community and media resources.

Analysts and money managers have a suggestion for Yahoo shareholders mulling over the $44.6 billion buyout bid from Microsoft: Take the money and run.

Ubuntu and Red Hat are the most used Linux distributions among the 35,000 members of content-management vendor Alfresco's community, the company found in its second survey of trends in enterprise open-source software usage.

Worldwide Linux mobile device market share remained flat at five percent in 4Q 2007, says a Canalys report on mobile phones. Yet the study also says that signs point to future growth for Linux phones.

Trolltech, the mobile Linux company that is to be bought by Nokia, has announced enhancements to its Qtopia platform.

The Linux kernel has reached a level of maturity where it mostly goes unnoticed and acts like an "invisible magician in the background", according to Linus Torvalds.

Wayne Kelly, leader of the open source Ruby.Net development project, announced last week that he intends to discontinue development of Ruby.Net and join up with Microsoft's IronRuby open source efforts. This might sound good on the surface, but it is a bad idea.

A few weeks ago a former boss and mentor of mine made my jaw drop by asking me, "Why has open source failed?"

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